Maternal Health Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. Each stage should be a positive experience, ensuring women and their babies reach their full potential for health and well-being. Most maternal deaths are preventable with timely management by a skilled health professional working in a supportive environment....

Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed, Executive Director of Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-GH), a women advocacy group, says empowering women economically is critical to helping them realise equal rights, curb issues of gender inequality and gender-based violence in society. She said it was vital for policymakers and development planners to build their capacities and equip them...

Women in Ghana closing the gender gap in internet access – but still miss out on benefits of digital technology Almost as many women as men use the internet in Ghana, according to a new survey from the World Wide Web Foundation, which finds men are just 6% more likely to be online than women. This...

New York, 29 October, 2020 – As 2 billion people across the world struggle to survive in areas afflicted by armed conflict in the midst of a global pandemic, women – who are disproportionately affected by such strife and play a key role as mediators and peacebuilders –remain largely excluded from formal peace processes and post-conflict power...

[As delivered] It is an honour to address the Security Council and present the Secretary-General’s report on women, peace and security on the 20th anniversary of Security Council resolution 1325. The resolution was born out of the horrors committed against the bodies of women and girls in Bosnia and Rwanda, and the example set by women who fought for their...

Ghana among other countries continuous to lose women to breast cancer due to low information on breast cancer. Reports indicate that nearly 70% of women are diagnosed with advanced stages of the disease, leading to increased deaths. An Oncologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching, Dr. Joel Yarney, has revealed to GhanaWeb that the proportion of women...

The Burden of Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Several efforts have been made to improve the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) situation but gaps still exist for improvement and mortality declines in recent decades of maternal and under five mortality rates in the ECOWAS lag behind global as well...

Dr Siga Fatima Jagne, Commissioner, Social Affairs and Gender, ECOWAS Commission, says the outbreak of COVID-19 has increased the risk of women insecurity and made them most-at-risk populations. She said though 14 African countries had adopted the National Action Plans (NAPs) on United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325” UNSCR 1325”, they were unable to successfully implement...

Africa’s economic recovery can be meaningfully accelerated if policymakers and the private sector step up their efforts to empower women – a group that accounts for more than half of the continent’s population. While the pursuit of gender equality is primarily a moral obligation, it also makes economic sense. By denying women their full rights...

Key information on Adolescents in West and Central Africa  In West and Central Africa, Adolescents constitute 23 per cent of the population in 2018, which is the highest proportion of any region.  As they transition from childhood to adulthood, adolescents acquire the physical, cognitive, emotional, social and economic resources that serve as the...